Leave Bonds alone: Steroid blame based on faulty reasoning
By Steve Salerno -- SPRING IS UPON US, and with it, another season of hand-wringing over the San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, steroids and what the two together symbolize about the downfall of Western civilization.
I respectfully submit that the folks making these arguments haven't thought things through.
Baseball purists contend that steroids give a player an unfair advantage over his contemporaries and, worse, facilitate an artificially enhanced assault on some of the sport's sacred records. Bonds' angriest critics suggest that if the allegations against him are finally proved, his single-season home run record (73) should be expunged. Further, they argue, if Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's career home run record, that achievement should carry an asterisk identifying it as tainted.
Trouble is, the reasoning that underlies such arguments is itself tainted.
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:49:44 -0600
By Steve Salerno -- SPRING IS UPON US, and with it, another season of hand-wringing over the San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, steroids and what the two together symbolize about the downfall of Western civilization.
I respectfully submit that the folks making these arguments haven't thought things through.
Baseball purists contend that steroids give a player an unfair advantage over his contemporaries and, worse, facilitate an artificially enhanced assault on some of the sport's sacred records. Bonds' angriest critics suggest that if the allegations against him are finally proved, his single-season home run record (73) should be expunged. Further, they argue, if Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's career home run record, that achievement should carry an asterisk identifying it as tainted.
Trouble is, the reasoning that underlies such arguments is itself tainted.
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:49:44 -0600
